March 2019

The competition for the UX Design Awards 2019 has already started!
Till 31 March, companies and agencies worldwide will have the opportunity to submit user-centric products, services and concepts. All nominees will be presented at an award exhibition at IFA, the global trade fair for consumer technologies in Berlin, from 6 - 11 September 2019.

Berlin Showroom will deepen the successful DACH cooperation jointly initiated with AFA (Austria) and Mode Suisse (Switzerland) in Autumn 2017. 26 up-and-coming as well as established designers of the german-speaking region will unite and showcase their latest collections at DACH Showroom from 1st to 5th of March in the heart of Paris, Marais.

On March 4 & 5, the Fraunhofer Institute will offer a training program that deals with the promotion of the circular economy by emphasizing design and life cycle thinking.

The question of how products and services can be designed to be as environmentally friendly as possible is becoming increasingly urgent. The two-day interactive workshop "Ökodesign Lernfabrik" is based, among other things, on design thinking methods. Participants* apply user-centric interdisciplinary approaches and sustainability tools to minimize the ecological footprint while maximizing the benefits of closed-loop business models.

On the occasion of the Bauhaus anniversary the German Design Day started the series "Bauhaus 4.0 - Future is made of design". In a total of ten panel discussions, ideas for the design of a future worth living will be collected. In each case three to four top creative people with very different fields of activity and experience will ask themselves questions such as: How can we use the utopian potential of the Bauhaus not only to react to social developments, but to actively shape them ourselves? How can we learn from the most sustainable design school in history?

The second panel discussion will take place in Garching/München. The topic: Bauhaus 4.0 meets Product Design & Industrial Design: For the design of interfaces - between products, media and people

Germany's largest design event is just around the corner - Munich Creative Business Week (MCBW). More than 120 programme partners attract thousands of creative people to the Bavarian capital, including User Interface Design GmbH. In 2019, UID will once again be a programme partner of the MCBW and has put together a varied and exciting programme under the banner of "Future Technologies": Three events around the topic "Future Technologies" will take place from 13 to 14 March.

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13 –14 March | Open Lab | 4pm – 9pm: Here you can explore the exhibition on your own or take part in a guided tour every half hour between 4:30pm and 8:30pm

Since September 2018, the INKA research group at the HTW Berlin has been offering artists, performers and employees of small companies in the cultural and creative industries the opportunity to further their education in the fields of augmented reality and digital media production as part of a six-monthly School for ARtists.

At the AURORA School for ARtists you can choose between five further education courses within eight weeks.

Course 1

Examples, conception and design of augmented reality applications in the creative field

The first training course offers a first introduction to the complex field of Augmented Reality (AR). It focuses on the transfer of basic knowledge and meaningful examples: The cultural-historical illumination of the still young technology is followed by a discussion of current AR applications in the context of artistic expression. The programme also includes an overview of the hardware and software required and clarification of important terms from AR programming.
Subsequently, the focus will be on the analogue conception and design of AR applications in the creative field.

This training is a basic course that does not require any previous knowledge.

On the occasion of the Bauhaus anniversary the German Design Day starts the series "Bauhaus 4.0 - Future is made of design". In a total of ten panel discussions, ideas for the design of a future worth living will be collected. In each case three to four top creative people with very different fields of activity and experience will ask themselves questions such as: How can we use the utopian potential of the Bauhaus not only to react to social developments, but to actively shape them ourselves? How can we learn from the most sustainable design school in history?

The third panel discussion will take place in Bremen. The topic:

»Bauhaus 4.0 meets service & interaction design: interaction with all senses – how experience will be designed in the future«

With the exhibition "Balkrishna Doshi. Architecture for people", the Vitra Design Museum presents the first retrospective of the complete works of Balkrishna Doshi (*1927 in Pune, India) outside Asia. The famous architect and urban planner, who was the first Indian to receive the renowned Pritzker Prize in 2018, is one of the few pioneers of modern architecture on the subcontinent.
The exhibition illustrates Doshi's decisive influence on modern Indian architecture and on generations of younger architects.

Scholz & Volkmer will be presenting current trends on the subject of "Visualising Information", thus providing insights into areas such as design, architecture, performance, film, art, technology, research and communication. In addition to the focus on "data visualization" as a design discipline, the focus is increasingly on how social truths can assert themselves through visualization in the flood of information.

As part of the project "Berlin Poland | Fashion Business & Manufacture 2019-2020", the International Design Centre Berlin invites you to a kickoff workshop.

In our workshops we would like to supply Berlin fashion companies with practical knowledge and tools as well as support them in establishing and maintaining production partnerships. In addition, new cross-border business ideas and cooperations will be developed, which will then be continued independently.

The opening workshop serves to align and define the goals, which will be worked out in four follow-up workshops with Berlin labels and Polish textile producers.

The participation is free of charge, the number of participants is limited.

On 3 and 4 May 2019, the Kunstmuseen Krefeld and the Association for the History of Design will hold a joint conference on contemporary design. The focus of this historically and theoretically oriented conference will be on the creation, production and use of design for everyday life.

On the occasion of the Bauhaus anniversary the German Design Day starts the series "Bauhaus 4.0 - Future is made of design". In a total of ten panel discussions, ideas for the design of a future worth living will be collected. In each case three to four top creative people with very different fields of activity and experience will ask themselves questions such as: How can we use the utopian potential of the Bauhaus not only to react to social developments, but to actively shape them ourselves? How can we learn from the most sustainable design school in history?

The fourth panel discussion will take place in Aalen/Stuttgart. The topic:

On 9 May, the touring exhibition "Re:Form - A tribute to 100 years of Bauhaus" will be opened at stilwerk Hamburg. IDZ member and designer Tassilo von Grolmann will be present as guest of honour. Registration until 3 May at: stilwerk.com

On 11 May, the twenty-first colloquium "Design Graduated" of the German Society for Design Theory and Research (DGTF) will take place in Essen. Here, PhD students in design have the opportunity to present their research topic for discussion among like-minded people. Experienced design researchers are invited to provide helpful comments.

Artificial intelligence is on everyone's lips in politics, business, art. The fields of application of AI are as diverse as their aspects. MS Science , the exhibition ship of the Federal Ministry of Education and Research, shows how new technologies influence everyday life and what science and research contribute to the development of AI. The exhibition, conceived by the Berlin creative agency Archimedes Exhibitions, will tour almost 30 cities in Germany and Austria until 24 October.

From 18 May to 20 October the exhibition "FOOD: Bigger than the Plate" can be seen at the Victoria and Albert Museum London. The project "infObjects" by our member Johanna Spath is part of the exhibition. The three-dimensional visualisation of information is intended to encourage people to engage with the consumption and handling of food.

In 2019, the Bureau of European Design Associations (BEDA) celebrates its fiftieth anniversary with a full-day symposium and General Assembly in Brussels. Nothing less will be designed than a new vision for design in Europe. As a member of BEDA, the IDZ is looking forward to further developing the EU action plan "Design Driven Innovation" of 2013 together with more than 50 European design centres - and thus to representing the role of design as an important part of European innovation policy.

On the occasion of the Bauhaus anniversary the German Design Day starts the series "Bauhaus 4.0 - Future is made of design". In a total of ten panel discussions, ideas for the design of a future worth living will be collected. In each case three to four top creative people with very different fields of activity and experience will ask themselves questions such as: How can we use the utopian potential of the Bauhaus not only to react to social developments, but to actively shape them ourselves? How can we learn from the most sustainable design school in history?

The fifth panel discussion will take place in Reinbek/Hamburg. The topic: